Software Development Engineer III, Amazon Leo CT Anchor

Amazon • Redmond, WA

1d • $168,100 - $227,400 • Onsite

About The Position

Amazon Leo is Amazon’s low Earth orbit satellite network, aiming to deliver fast, reliable internet connectivity to customers beyond the reach of existing networks. The Developer Experience organization is responsible for the entire path from commit to satellite, building a unified platform to empower Leo engineers. This platform will enable them to see their code affect satellite operations within days and provide stakeholders with a one-stop view to evaluate releases across all dimensions (acceptance, performance, security), reducing manual intervention, accelerating approval, and providing end-to-end traceability. We are seeking a Senior engineer experienced in supporting mission-critical applications, passionate about building solutions that enhance automation, stability, and release processes across multiple systems. The role involves owning developer experience across the entire Leo, CICD, and production services, working closely with engineering teams to navigate ambiguity, identify and address common issues, drive solutions, and improve overall release quality, reliability, and operational excellence. The engineer will build self-serve platforms, automation, and tools to enable Leo engineers to ship high-quality software to space and ground rapidly, securely, and at scale.

Requirements

• 7+ years of non-internship professional software development experience
• 7+ years of programming with at least one software programming language experience
• 7+ years of leading design or architecture (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience
• Experience as a mentor, tech lead or leading an engineering team
• U.S. citizen or national, U.S. permanent resident (i.e., current Green Card holder), or lawfully admitted into the U.S. as a refugee or granted asylum.

Nice To Haves

• 7+ years of full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations experience
• Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent

Responsibilities

• Responsible for developer experience across the entire Leo, CICD and production services.
• Work closely with engineering teams to deal with ambiguity, identify and address common issues, drive solutions, and improve overall release quality, reliability and operational excellence.
• Build self-serve platform, automation, tools that enable Leo engineers to ship high quality software to space and ground, rapidly, securely and at scale.
• Solve problems in ways that can be backed up with verifiable data, focusing on driving processes, tools, and statistical methods which support rational decision-making.
• Push the limits past conventional boundaries.
• Help grow team members to achieve outstanding results and foster a creative atmosphere for engineers to innovate, while holding them accountable for making smart decisions and delivering results.
• Recognize that there’s always opportunity for improvement and use introspection and feedback from teammates and peers to raise the bar for the team.
• Explore new problem spaces with unique constraints and thus non-obvious solutions; quickly identify any gaps in the team and the right person to fill them to best deliver value to customers.
• Identify problems and develop solutions; embrace performance metrics and measurement techniques to assess how well system-related services are running.
• Be a key contributor on an engineering team that delivers results.
• Apply first principal thinking into work and find simple solutions to tackle fundamental problems.
• Deal with ambiguity and define technical strategy.
• Work with release teams to deeply understand the current workflow, use cases, pain points, inefficiency and come up with innovative simple solutions.

Benefits

• health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription, Basic Life & AD&D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans, EAP, Mental Health Support, Medical Advice Line, Flexible Spending Accounts, Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage)
• 401(k) matching
• paid time off
• parental leave
• sign-on payments
• restricted stock units (RSUs)

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: Associate degree